Apple Updates Find My Friends with Friend Location Notifications

what i'm hoping is that i'll soon be able to say things like "Siri, please remind me to talk to Joe about the car show next weekend when i see him." resulting in my phone giving me a notification with context next time our phones are detected as in the same location... THAT would be the best development ever for this app.

This is very useful. My fiancé always lets me know when he's about to leave work but sometimes someone needs to talk to him about something at the last minute or he gets distracted. But now I can set a notification for when he actually leaves.

notifications only for specific times.

That will be key; same as you I want to let my wife know I left the company and second when close to home. But only Mon to Fri between 6pm an 8pm.
On weekends not needed.

Google Latitude briefly had a similar feature but Google removed it shortly after implementation.

I personally love this feature for letting friends and family know when I've left home for a trip or arrived at my final destination without needing to notify them all, especially when it's very late. It also lets my partner know when I've left work and am on my way home for dinner. While I can see it's not a feature for everyone, the per-person basis means you only share this info with the people you want to. If it can be coupled with an expiration date, like location sharing already can be (I believe this was demoed in the iPhone 4S keynote), it could be a great way to allow for such notifications only for specific times.

What do you think?

This is available. Your wife sets up her arrive/leave recurring push notifications to you on her phone. You set yours to send to her from your own phone.

Thanks,
I was going on what I had read about it being single use notifications, but hadn't explored it personally. I was waiting a day or two on upgrading her phone in case I had problems with the upgrade.

This is very useful. My fiancé always lets me know when he's about to leave work but sometimes someone needs to talk to him about something at the last minute or he gets distracted. But now I can set a notification for when he actually leaves.

This is pretty much exactly what we have wanted it for, except I also travel for work, so notifying my wife when I arrive or leave some of my client locations would help my wife know when I might get home without me having to constantly send text messages.

I just updated and my NOTIFY button is greyed out. I take it both people need to be on the new version for this feature to work.

That's the case.

However, if you click on the "Me" tab, you can setup leave/arrive notifications to send to anyone's email. It will warn you if they don't have iOS simply to say that they may not be able to share locations with you.

Damn that's an ugly app.

I just updated and my NOTIFY button is greyed out. I take it both people need to be on the new version for this feature to work.

Can you post screenshots of the configuration page?

Here you go...

I've been using the new Find My Friends app since the beta release. As far as I can tell, even checking again now, I can't set a notification on another friend that lasts indefinitely. It's a one time notification that expires after use, then I must set it again. Additionally, I can only set one at a time per person. So I can't say, notify me when my friend arrives at any of these dozen bars, ever. This one time notification is useful for something like notifying me when my wife arrives at her mom's house which is a 6 hour trip.

On the other hand, I can add notifications (multiple) from my own iPhone for others (multiple) that do last indefinitely. This would allow me to notify my wife anytime I'm leaving work. Or notify a group of people everytime I arrive at the office.

But again, as far as I can tell, other people can't set up an ongoing notification about me - it's just the one time, then they have to create it again.

Maybe it's changed post beta... or maybe I'm missing how the feature works.